Posts tagged with: finance

About a year ago, my 19 year old son asked me,”Dad, what makes people successful?” It was a question I didn’t expect, but as I thought about it for a few minutes and reflected back on my experience and many conversations with successful people, I responded, “It’s how you spend your spare time. It comes…

With interest rates remaining at historic lows, you may decide that now is the right time to start searching for your new home. And that makes sense: the lower your interest rate on your mortgage, the more money you’ll save over the life of your loan. Just a one-point difference can mean saving thousands of dollars…

With Texas’ pro-business political environment creating jobs, its diverse economy, and booming cities, Texas has long been a desirable state for real estate investors. It’s the main reason my wife and I chose to begin our real estate portfolio 10 yrs ago in Texas. Today, we have over 40 rental units that are all positive…

Owning a Piece of America is a great opportunity to invest in your future and build wealth over time. As Andrew Carnegie said best, “Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate”. However, where do you start? I wanted to share my thoughts in three phases: First, get Financially Fit. It comes…

Personal financial statements are your roadmap to guide you from where you are today, to where you want to be tomorrow. They also provide fixed points of reference from which you can measure your progress over time. It’s very difficult to achieve financial fitness and stability if you don’t have a baseline of where you…

Financial fitness and money management generally isn’t a fun topic for most of us–it can be boring, scary, and frustrating. In Fidelity’s recent study, 39% of millennials worry about finances and 25% don’t know who to trust. How do you know if you can afford to go to that music festival with your friends today…